On average, in 2008-2009 45% of the quarter and semester instructional units were generated by students
not majoring in music.
"Sixty percent of new community college students aren’t ready for college-level work. Community colleges spend $2 billion a year teaching basic skills, yet fewer than 25 percent of remedial students earn a degree within eight years.
Jill said that her students’ papers “are replete with sweeping generalizations and overly simplistic and overly confident perspectives on complex issues.’’ (from "On the ground, tales of ill-prepared undergrads by Jesse Singal, Feb. 03, 2011)
Find main title music to Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Lifeboat (1944) During titles, a ship is sinking. Friedhofer (composer) says he used the notes of the distress call whistle. This is a single octatonic scale for the first 90 seconds or so.)
context changes the meaning of words (“Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas.”)
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What is the poster format for research presentations?
List of topics to research (not book report, but actually gathering data) In other words, find out something
What if you had to cite everything that you claim is true?
Make a lesson integration (cross-curricular) web page w/ links from subject area to music (or put on Elem Links page) It would be great to compile as many of the folksongs as possible and package (or link) sound files w/ cross-reference to other lessons
A page of things to use music , like getting quiet, lining up at the door, happy bday, etc.
List of children's books w/ music in the story
Concert manners
Page about why: Why take theory? Why write about music? Use quote in my Stein book p. xi
All words that need to be defined can be in a certain color and linked to another webpage of definitions, especially for online courses.
LImerick webpage
Page with melodies to show one at beginning of each class to name that tune based upon notation only.
DME How to: teach lyrics in a hurry, etc. a general hint page
Effective Teaching in Higher Education Ed. by Raymon P. Perry
John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces,
Edward Bailey Birge (1868-1952). His enduring History of Public School Music in the United States
George N. Heller Comprehensive Bibliography
Donald W. Krummel (1987) Bibliographic Handbook of American Music
Modality by Ron Miller
Why and How to Teach Composition Maud Hickey
The Beatles as Musicians
Complete Your Dissertation in Two Semesters or Less (Evelyn Hunt Ogden)
Book Title: Teaching Approaches in Music Theory: An Overview of Pedagogical Philosophies. Contributors: Michael R. Rogers - author. Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press. Place of Publication: Carbondale, IL. Publication Year: 1984. Page Number: 126.
"Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music in them." Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Songs
Simple Kind of Man: Lynard Skynard (only I, V 7 vi in song)
When introducing the idea of relative major and minor keys to my first-year theory students, I like to play them "There is a Light that Never Goes Out" by The Smiths. The verses, in minor, have lyrics like,
"Take me out tonight because I want to see people who are young and alive... I never want to go home"
and then the chorus kicks up to the relative major with the unforgettable lyric:
"And if a double decker bus crashes into us To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us To die by your side, well the pleasure, the privilege is mine"
It's certainly a macabre little ditty, and it definitely shows the songwriters' awareness of (and their play with) the major/minor stereotype.
S. Alexander Reed, Ph.D.
The University of Florida
Metallica S&M album is Metallica + San Francisco Symphony
Long Way Home
Super Tramp these use a pedal (C pedal on Super Tramp)
Also chromatic mediant relationship in B section
Shostakovich String Quartet #8 in C minor
Bruchner Symph 8 Mvt III beautiful harmonic progression
Fur Elisa used in "I can" by Nas
Adagio for Strings - DJ Tiesto (trance)
Metallica (w/ symphony) Nothing Else Matters: get original version, the one with symphony and Apocalyptica is a string quartet that also plays Nothing else Matters
I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise Sarah Vaughn has sequence and modulation (also word painting)
Do we want rich music with messy theory or simple music with precise theory? We will take our error somewhere. Where do we want it? - - Richard Hermann Prof of Music Univ. of New Mexico
Discussion Questions
What is the purpose of schooling?
What would it be like if you could sing like _____? Outside of becoming a professional musician, how would your life be different? (Use article about "All can sing (Africa) to inspire to teach children singing confidence)
Student Teacher Exits
Every other year courses are a problem
Need more piano also how to play carols, patriotic & accompaniment
Nee more elementary ed classes
Need to know how to do a program
More scoring and arranging for vocal
require musical theater involvment
More technology and sound system stuff
PD List
Apr 7, 2006 Provost's Instructional Technology Innovation Award Nominee
Aug 30, 2006 CRS Training
Oct. 5, 2006 WebCT Training
Oct. 10, 2006 SRS Debriefing
Oct. 13 , 2006 Undergraduate Research
Oct. 20, 2006 Undergraduate Research
Nov. 9, 2006 WebCT Training (Assessment)
Nov. 20, 2006 Dreamweaver Training
Nov. 28, 2006 Dreamweaver Training
Spring 2007 Committe for Undergraduate Research
April 13, 2007 Presenter in the Excellence in Teaching Showcase (Student Response System applications)
May 23-25 Conference on Transforming Large Enrollment Classes
When DMA is over - audit a class once a year, or each semester
Music: sound with intentional parameters as prescribed by the intender
Music Theory: a set of observations used to analyze and to understand music
The following chart provides an informative list of essential critical thinking skills.
Ø Essential Critical Thinking Skills (Woolfolk 1990, p. 278)
Ø Defining and Clarifying the Problem
Ø Identify central issues or problems.
Ø Compare similarities and differences.
Ø Determine which information is relevant.
Ø Formulate appropriate questions.
Ø Judge Information Related to the Problem
Ø Distinguish between fact, opinion and reasoned judgment.
Ø Check consistency.
Ø Identify unstated assumptions.
Ø Recognize stereotypes and clichés.
Ø Recognize bias, emotional factors, propaganda and semantic slanting.
Ø Recognize different value systems and ideologies.
Put in oral report guidelines to use ending slide during conclusion
Song parodies: Smells like Nirvana
Get curriculum for PD2 and don't teach what they're teaching
Attach games to concepts
List of children's literature - or links to websites
Links to PTO program ideas
We should try to strengthen our weakness instead of strengthen our strengths.
Put your hand up as high as you can. Now one inch higher.
Switch hitters work more on their weak side than strong side
Web page on big losers: A. Lincoln lost 18 times before winning an election Big Losers and Why You Should Hang in There
Put in a web page about why we bow and show to Freshmen (Lame bows on student recitals) Performance is not just the music - it is the entire presentation
Put in Theory I: find the pitch of your snap
Creative Recorder is in Creative's Sound Blaster will record all audio passing through it
Also Audio Hijack
2 tries on tests on WebCT
Web page on Classical music "Old Wives Tales" or myths
Why is Air on a G string called that?
Song in which you can actually hear the mellotron
Find Prelude and Fugue by bernstein
To clicker people
How can you manually click someone in?
TMA and SMA switching
Adapter for recharging
Names on squares for more than attendance
Can you set the random student feature to not include people who are not there?
Enrichment essays to read: Babbitt's "Who Cares If You Listen," Taruskin's "The Musical Mystique," and various popular audience writings by Peter Kivy, Daniel Levitin
Theory General
rhythm - the management of time in human musical processes (Hijleh)
pitch - the human perception of audible fundamental frequencies and their relationships (Hijleh)
melody - sequential pitch (LaRue)
harmony - simultaneous pitch (LaRue)
Understanding the management of time (rhythm) and pitch is what music theory seeks to accomplish.
Think "growth" instead of "form"
groupings - identifiable sets of durational elements
beat - theoretical place markers in the temporal flow
When I talk to classes about maximal compositional use of minimal musical materials, I talk about motives as having specific and general properties: an ascending leap of a fifth is specifically that, and is also an ascending leap, and, most generally, a leap. It can be treated so that its specific qualities are preserved under some operation, or so that its general qualities become generators of less-strictly-altered versions of themselves. Obviously the idea isn't mine -- it's Schoenberg's, primarily -- and the language isn't technical (and perhaps not sufficiently precise, though it seems to work). But it would serve to get your point across, I think.
My late policy is no late work except in an emergency (I tell them in detail what is an emergency and what is not) and then only up to 7 days late. I don't take work earlier than one week and I do not accept early discussion work.
The following is posted in my classes:
Computer or technology problems are not valid excuses for late work. Late work is not accepted. If you have an emergency, email me immediately. Late work may (not will) be accepted with a due date extension in cases of true emergencies. For example if your emergency occurs on a due date, then there won't be an extension because students should practice good time management skills and not procrastinate until the last minute. Another example would be if an emergency occurred early in the week and the student did not miss more than 2-3 days of work, then classwork is expected to be completed on time by the end of the week.
Students need to be able to distinguish between emergencies and reasons for which, no matter how much I genuinely do sympathize, I will not accept the work late. Generally, when work is late, students have good reasons but good reasons are not emergencies. These circumstances include but are not limited to: technology problems, a hectic work schedule, working overtime (expected or unexpected), personal or family relationship issues, travel for work or pleasure, short-term power or Internet outages, 24-48 illnesses, etc.
True emergencies are situations involving personal illness or hospitalization that may require missing work for some period of days. Emergencies include illness, hospitalization, or death of an immediate family member (not extended family). Natural disasters, such as ice storms, hurricanes, floods, fires, etc., that prevent students from participating in class for several days past a due date are also true emergencies.
I do understand that life just gets in the way sometimes and unexpected events occur from time to time (I have spent more than my fair share of time as a student and have experienced all of these types of events) -- but these are not emergencies. Treat your classes the same as you would your career. This means that work deadlines are met even if you have to miss a day or two of work occasionally -- you just work longer hours afterward to make up the time. In online classes, you don't have to "miss" any class time because you can do your work anytime during the week. Employees and students just have to work overtime on occasion to make sure everything gets done on time.
Heaven is Where: The Police are British, The Chefs are Italian, The Mechanics are German, The Lovers are French and It's all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is Where: The Police are German, The Chefs are British, The Mechanics are French, The Lovers are Swiss and
It's all organized by the Italians.
To assist faculty members in implementing a personal course feedback system, below are 20 course feed back questions. The 20 Questions are: 1. The most important thing I have learned in this course so far is. . . 2. The most interesting new idea I have learned in this course is. . . 3. The aspect of this class that is the most helpful for my learning is. . . 4. The most challenging part of this course is. . .. 5. The most difficult aspect of this course for me is. . . 6. The one thing I can do to improve my learning in this course is. . . 7. I would have an easier time learning in this class if I could. . . 8. The one thing I expect out of this course that is not being provided is. . . 9. I would improve this course by. . . 10. The great weakness of this course that I would correct is. . . 11. The part of the course that I have liked the most so far is. . . 12. I know the following techniques are used in other classes and I believe they could be used effectively in this class. . . 13. I have the following questions or suggestions for you [class instructor]. . . 14. I suggest that you [class instructor] make the following changes in the course between now and the end of the semester to help me learn better. . . 15. My recommendation for improving class participation and discussion is. . . 16. To help me learn, you [class instructor] should start doing the following things. . . 17. To help me learn, you [class instructor] should stop doing the following things. . . 18. I have the following suggestions for how you [class instructor] can use other media or other technologies in this course. 19. Please comment on how well the required readings tie in with class presentations, discussions, and small-group projects. 20. Please comment on how well each class session helps you synthesize the major ideas for the lesson.
3 Strands of Musicians:
Performer Listener Creator
Improvisation is the only one that allows you to do all 3 at once.
Fundamental rules of administration
We can build common understandings and expectations
We can simplify complex problems into more manageable assignments
We can direct attention to the most crucial aspects of performance
We can offer timely knowledge of results
We can sustain effort by offering encouragement
We can set reachable goals
One of my Pop Music students said:
I am a strong believer that music is definitely a way of life, and it really influences our lives. Either by helping us getting over a break-up by a revengeful song like Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats", or helping you get that 30 minute cardio work-out down with the help of the Black-Eyed Peas. Music is the motivator of our lives!
HAPPY SPRING BREAK! 
